1 March 2026
Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.
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Third album from Australian electronic musician Harley Edward Streten includes collaborations with Oklou, May-a, Kucka, Laurel, Virgen María, Emma Louise, Caroline Polachek and Damon Albarn
6.2
This techno-charged offering upscales the drops, fidgety distortion and replay value that has proved a constant in his playbook Read Review
On this third album, the musician couples his floor-shaking, hit-making style with quieter moments of introspection, reaching new heights in the process Read Review
Intended to be enjoyed by both faithful Flume stans and new listeners drawn to the beauty of a cacophonous, glitched-out style popularised by super-producers like SOPHIE, Danny Harle, and more Read Review
Although not without its inspired moments, Harley Streten’s third LP confirms that he’s most creatively free outside the album format Read Review
Flume’s Palaces is as surprising as it is forgettable Read Review
The Australian producer’s latest gets stuck between innovation and the urge to party like it’s 2014 Read Review
Palaces is so obsessed with the serenity of open air that it forgets how much more exciting Flume is when he picks apart a single concept Read Review
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Mitski Nothing's About to Happen to Me
A frenzied orchestral soundtrack for her gradual unravelling Clash
Gorillaz The Mountain
This is an album which proves Gorillaz can stretch their sound even further while remaining entirely in control Clash
By some distance their most ambitious album yet, this multilayered musical tour de force brings meaningful strands of hope to death, chaos and delirium musicOMH
Her eighth album is one that only she could make: strange, otherworldly and yet immediately accessible and addictive musicOMH
Iron & Wine Hen's Teeth
The delicate, technicolour tracks on Sam Beam’s eighth album see him consolidate his reputation as a songwriter of distinction musicOMH
Mitski’s homebound eighth album is both theatrical and restrained, responding to her newfound visibility with sober reflections on loneliness and delusion Pitchfork
Peaches No Lube So Rude
Pearl clutchers beware: The electro-punk icon’s first album in a decade revels in raunch — as good dirty fun, but also as a celebration of human desires, human needs, and human rights Pitchfork
Peaches returns with an album full of bangers and more than a few profanities – but does it all get a bit one note sometimes? The Quietus
When you’re consistently serving up brilliantly written songs that sound great and are performed with panache, that’s not a formula, that’s just being very good at your job The Line Of Best Fit
The Mountain feels deeper and more emotionally resonant than any of its predecessors: for all the project’s other merits, it’s rarely been appropriate to describe Gorillaz as beautiful, profound or moving The Line Of Best Fit
Bill Callahan My Days of 58
Though still working with the materials of human life – relationships, states of mind, creative impulses – he recognizes the transience and/or emptiness at the heart of everything. The search for wisdom has become Callahan’s raison d’etre The Line Of Best Fit
It’s a terrific work, thematically rich and containing some of the most precise and emotionally devastating songwriting of her career Consequence Of Sound
The album’s highest points may justify a certain excitement, as the artist is clearly still experimenting and expanding stylistically, always a welcome sign from someone as historically daring and luminous as Mr. Beam Under The Radar
The whole album is fantastic and slots right in with Iron and Wine’s extensive discography of instant classics, well worth a listen for any discerning fan of modern folk God Is In The TV
Even in its most contemplative moments, the album avoids becoming heavy or distant The Arts Desk
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Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways